Koresh Dance Company; Melissa Rector, Jessica Daley, Shannon Bramham Photo credit: Alexander Iziliaev By Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal There may have been chunks of empty seats at various performances of Koresh‘s Come Together Festival, but this ambitious event was so well organized and executed that it has to be reported as a rousing [...]

by Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal Roni Koresh and his company got back into town last week from tour dates in Idaho and immediately began putting the final touches on Come Together, a dance festival that he, his brother Alon and the creative team at Koresh Dance have been envisioning for a long time. [...]

by Kat Richter, MA for The Dance Journal Following the performance of Koresh’s Youth Ensemble at the Suzanne Roberts Theater on Thursday night, Artistic Director Roni Koresh confessed that he hadn’t choreographed anything for an entire year thanks to the company’s retrospective 20th anniversary performance.  He said he’d been anxious to get started—itching to get [...]

by Kat Richter, MA for The Dance Journal In tattered jeans and one of his trademark scarves, Roni Koresh confessed to a full house at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre on Thursday night that he had yet to see a full run through of his company’s twentieth anniversary performance. “This is the most difficult thing I’ve [...]

By Merilyn Jackson FOR THE INQUIRER What a wonderful thing when a city’s audience base sustains an arts organization for two decades or more. Koresh Dance Company’s 20th anniversary year is upon us, and the company proved that it deserves this longevity with its fall season opener at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre Thursday evening. The [...]

By Merilyn Jackson, For The Inquirer Artistic director/choreographer Roni Koresh sometimes cherry-picks the best-received sections from his earlier dances, gathers them into a sequence, then gives the whole a title and a vague raison d’etre, as he has with his new Through the Skin. “Don’t intellectualize this dance, feel it viscerally,” he said before Thursday’s [...]

by Amy Harding for The Dance Journal They are known for technical excellence, flawless execution, and passionate expression. Koresh Dance Company’s new work “Through the Skin” is both new and yet familiar in the most positive ways imaginable. In this work, the technique is both present, yet invisible.  The dancers embody the human flaws and [...]

The troupe’s students were smooth, too. By Merilyn Jackson, For The Inquirer Koresh Dance Company, at Thursday’s opening of its fall run at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, did what it always does – stormed the stage and took no prisoners. Roni Koresh opened with the Koresh Youth Ensemble performing an excerpt from one of his best [...]

Koresh Dance Company traveled to Roni Koresh’s homeland of Israel to perform for the very first time in the International Spring Festival, Rishon LeZion Raised in Israel, Ronen Koresh, artistic director of Koresh Dance Company, began his dance education as a youth, training and dancing with his mother, a folk dancer in the Yemenite tradition, [...]